Barry Dennen

On stage 1 production

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Into the Woods

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In the literature8 passages

• The London album featured Barry Dennen’s obscenely ingratiating Emcee, who sounded richer than Grey’s epicene version. London had no one to match Lotte Lenya or Jack Gilford, but Judi Dench managed to make her acting technique prevail over a mediocre singing voice. Her Sally was intermittently more vulnerable than Jill Haworth’s had been.ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
• When Bob, with Barry Dennen in tow, showed up at the Lichee Tree restaurant at 65 East Eighth Street, just before midnight on May 10, the place was mobbed with several hundred people. The night was a bit chilly, but partygoers were spilling out onto the sidewalk since the restaurant was packed to the walls inside. Photographers were snapp…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• Backstage at the Shubert Theatre, where Barbra had dressed every night for Wholesale not so long ago, Barry Dennen was practicing the lead role for the national touring company of the Broadway smash, David Merrick’s Stop the World—I Want to Get Off. He wasn’t practicing the lead because he had the lead—that had gone to Joel Grey—but becau…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• [>] “a big deal”: Streisand’s attitude toward Vasek Simek comes from an interview with Barry Dennen.ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• “Where did you ever ”: I have based my description of Barbara’s shopping expedition with Terry Leong on interviews with Adam Pollock, Barry Dennen, and another friend of Terry’s who asked to be kept anonymous. I have also used newspaper descriptions of Third Avenue during the period and of the various boutiques that operated along it. Ter…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• “delicately attenuated”: Barry Dennen, My Life with Barbra (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997).ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt

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